Copy photograph of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, USA. Excoriated for his dilatory role at Shiloh, Wallace was stationed in Union Depot, now Bartlett, Tenn., later in the Civil War. Courtesy of the Bartlett Historical Society.

Two 5-pointed brass stars belonged to Surgeon Robert Wood Mitchell, Vaughan's 13th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Mitchell was appointed surgeon in 1861, and was paroled in Mobile in 1865. Surgeons held the rank of major which was a single star on each...

"The Lost Cause," book signed by Thomas Jefferson Warr of Somerville, Tennessee. Thomas Jefferson Warr was born in Hardin County, Tenn., on August 26, 1839. He enlisted in the Confederate Army and was serving in Phillips' Battery at the time of his...

Lithograph portrait of Lucy Virginia French bet. p. 438 & 439 in "Women of the South Distinguished in Literature" (1865) by Mary Forrest. She is looking directly ahead with her dark curly hair parted in the middle and framing her face. Her lovely...